The long awaited debut LP from NYC’s FLOWER “Hardly A Dream” is finally set to arrive.
FLOWER’s tedious approach to writing/creating/drawing their debut LP was carefully thought out and the result is a monumental anarcho punk /crust record.
“Hardly A Dream” Takes us on a bleak journey through the dark side of society. As soon as you drop the needle a dark atmosphere is immediately created with a slow intro featuring arpeggio guitar work that builds into pummeling d-beat crust. The albums vocals then leave you with a feeling of being crushed by the ever-present weight of living through our modern world of late stage capitalism that was built on the falsehoods of the so called American dream, religious hypocrisy’s, nationalism, and the greed of humankind.
FLOWER take many cues from predecessors and are most often (and rightfully so) compared to NAUSEA but they also take a heavy influence from ANTISECT, SACRILEGE & other greats. The artwork has a very RUDIMENTARY PENI feel and the record comes with an amazing 24.5 X 34.75 CRASS style poster jacket. All art work was meticulously hand drawn and overseen by the guitarist Willow in true DIY style and spirit. Willow was also cool enough to draw up a special shirt for the record release featuring an alternative PROFANE EXISTENCE backprint!
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FLOWER will be on tour from January 2nd to the 13th
2nd New Brunswick
3rd Asheville
4th Greenville
5th Birmingham
6th New Orleans
7th Hattiesburg
9th Gainesville
10th Atlanta
11th Durham
12th Richmond
13th Philadelphia
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Profane Existence 
Unfortunately, during that ‘blip’ in human history humans have rendered as many species of life and their habitat-ecosystems extinct so as to rival all the other mass extinction in the geological record. So, while I get you’re point, and of course people should always try to do better, I kind of think humans ARE the problem.
Even the so-called ‘primitive’ societies living more sustainable lifestyles often show signs of developing destructive practices; the development of agriculture itself has a crucial role in deforestation and continues to do so to this day. Trying to feed 8 billion people on a planet whose ecological world system developed to sustain a few hundred million at most is always going to be a recipe for catastrophe, not just for them but for every other life form we share it with.
It’s a pretty heavy burden to do what often seem like triage for things that seem to be lost causes, but that just makes them more epic and worthwhile, and that much more significant when they are turned around. And many of them can be. We could stop abusing animals right now if we all wanted to. We could stop deforesting right now if we all wanted to. We could stop overpopulating right now if we all wanted to. We could turn around endangered species right now if we all wanted to. It’s just a matter of will, education, and cooperative effort.
I really liked your post but I still kind of think – just for the sake of accuracy in language – that humans are the problem. Athough at the same time, some people work toward solutions as well. That is the hope anyway.
Thanks for the great comment Neil. I appreciate it, and that you took the time to read this. Ian over at Uncivilized Animals also just recently wrote a very similar post.
And you are right, clearly humans are related to all the problems we face today – my point though is, that it is not the fact we are ‘human’ which causes those problems. It is more complex than that. What I am trying to address is the quick fix easy answers that often obscure the actual causes of problems rather than seek to address them